LOVE LAB: Normalize: Love Your Enemies

Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a
house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the
winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. But
anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a
house on sand. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house,
it will collapse with a mighty crash. Matthew 7:24-27 (NLT)

The question is not if storms will come, but
what the relationship is built upon when they do come.

Jesus the rock is not just hearing His teaching but
ordering our relationships according to His ways.

your enemy is NOT defined by how evil they are- your enemy is
defined by how they treat you!

You have to make a choice to NOT fight for your reputation
BUT fight for the relationship.

2 Corinthians 4:8 states “we are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not
crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never
abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed…..That is why we
never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed
everyday….So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now: rather we fix our gaze on
things on things that cannot be seen.”

He supplies the strength we lack,
the wisdom we need, and the grace that sustains us.

A relationship built on Christ may still feel the storm—but it will stand.